Echoes (best of) November 5, 2001 Disc 1 Astronomy domine Lime and limpid green the second scene the fights between the bleu you once knew floating down the sound resounds around the icy waters underground Jupiter and Saturn, Oberon there on the run Titanian, Neptune, Titan, stars can frighten Winding signs flap flicker flicker flicker flam pow pow stairways scared and death rules there blindman limpid green the sound surrounds the icy waters on the lime and limpid green the sound surrounds the icy waters underground See Emily play Emily tries but misunderstands she's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow There is no other day let's try it another way you'll loose your mind and play free games today see Emily play Soon after dark Emily cries gazing trough trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow Put on a gown that touches the ground float on a river for ever and ever Emily, Emily The happiest days of our lives When we grew up and went to school There were certain teachers who would Hurt the children any way they could By pouring their derision Upon anything we did And exposing every weakness However carefully hidden by the kids But in the town it was well known When they got home at night, their fat and Psycopathic wives would thrash them Within inches of their lives Another brick in the wall (part 2) We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave the kids alone Hey teacher leave us kids alone All in all it's just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall (chorus at end by pupils from the Fourth Form Music Class Islington Green School, London) We don't need no education We don't need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave the kids alone Hey teacher leave us kids alone All in all you're just another brick in the wall All in all you're just another brick in the wall Echoes Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air And deep beneath the rolling waves In labyrinths of coral caves The echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand And everything is green and submarine And no-one showed us to the land And no-one knows the where or whys But something stirs and something tries And starts to climb towards the light Strangers passing in the street By chance two separate glances meet And I am you and what I see is me And do I take you by the hand And lead you through the land And help me understand the best I can And no-one calls us to move on And no-one forces down our eyes And no-one speaks and no-one tries And no-one flies around the sun Cloudless everyday you fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise And through the window in the wall Come streaming in on sunlight wings A million bright ambassadors of morning And no-one sings me lullabies And no-one makes me close my eyes And so I throw the windows wide And call to you across the sky Hey you Hey you ! out there in the cold Getting lonely, getting old, can you feel me Hey you ! Standing in the aisles With itchy feet and fading smiles, can you feel me Hey you ! don't help them to bury the light Don't give in without a fight. Hey you ! out there on your own sitting naked by the phone would you touch me Hey you ! with your ear against the wall Waiting for someone to call out would you touch me Hey you ! would you help me to carry the stone Open your heart, I'm coming home But it was only a fantasy The wall was too high as you can see No matter how he tried he could not break free And the worms ate into his brain. Hey you ! out there on the road Doing what you're told, can you help me Hey you ! out there beyond the wall Breaking bottles in the hall, can you help me Hey you ! don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall. Marooned The Great Gig In The Sky Set the controls for the heart of the sun Little by little the night turns around counting the leaves wich tremble in the dawn notices leaning on each other and yearning under the leaves the swallow is resting Set the controls for the heart of the sun On to the mountain watching the Watcher breaking the darkness, breaking the grapevine the moment your flaw is run to your shadow notice the shadow that reopens the vine Set the controls for the heart of the sun heart of the sun Breaking the shape of his questions for ever when the sun will fall in the evening will he remember the lesson I gave him Set the controls for the heart of the sun heart of the sun Money Money, get away get a good job with more pay and you're O.K. money, it's a gas grab that cash with both hands and make a stash new car, caviar, four star daydream think I'll buy me a football team Money, get back I'm alright, Jack, keep your hands off my stack money, it's a hit don't give me that do goody good bullshit I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling set and I think I need a Lear jet Money, it's a crime share it fairlybut don't take a slice of my pie money, so they say is the root of all evil today but if you ask for a rise it's no surprise that they're giving none away, away, away Keep Talking For millions of years mankind lived just like animals Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination We learned to talk There's a silence surrounding me I can't seem to think straight I'LL sit in the corner No one can bother me I think I should speak now My words won't come out right I feel like I'm drowning I'm feeling week now But I can't show my weakness I sometimes wonder Where do we go from me It doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we keep talking Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking Where do we go from here It doesn't have to be like this All we need to do is make sure we keep talking Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling Why won't you talk to me You never talk to me What are you thinking What are you feeling I feel like I'm drowing You know I can't breathe now We're going nowhere We're going nowhere Sheep Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away, only dimly aware of a certain unease in the air You better watch out, there may be dogs about. I've looked over Jordan, and I have seen things are not what they seem. What do you get for pretending the dangers not real. Meek and obedient you follow the leader down well trodden corridors, into the valley of steel. What a surprise! A look of terminal shock in your eyes. Now things are really what they seem. No, this is no bad dream. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want He makes me down to lie. Through pastures green He leadeth me the silent waters by. With bright knives He releaseth my soul. He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places. He converteth me to lamb cutlets. For lo, He hath great power, and great hunger. When cometh the day we lowly ones, trough quiet reflection and great dedication, master the art of karate, lo, we shall rise up, and then we'll make the buggers eyes water. Bleating and babbling I fell on his neck with a sream. Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity unto the dream. Have you heard the news? The dogs are dead! You better stay home and do as you're told, get out of the road if you want to grow old. Sorrow The sweet smell of a great sorrow lies over the land plumes of smoke rise and merge into the leaden sky: a man lies and dreams of green fields and rivers but awakes to a morning with no reason for waking He's haunted by the memory of a lost paradise in his youth or a dream, he can't be precise he's chained forever to a world that's departed It's not enough, It's not enough His blood has frozen & curled with fright his knees have trembled & given way in the night his hand has weakened at the moment of truth his step has faltered One world, one soul Time pass, the river roll And he talks to the river of lost love and dedication and silent replies that swirl invitation flow dark and troubled to any oily sea a grim intimation of what is to be There's an unceasing wind that blows through this night and there's dust in my eyes, that blinds my sight and silence that speaks so much louder than words of promises broken. Disc 2 Shine on you crazy diamond (part 1-7) Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond. You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom, blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond. Treatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light. Shine on you crazy diamond. Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the steel breeze. Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine! Time Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine Staying home to watch the rain And you are young and life is long And there is time to kill today And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run You missed the starting gun And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it's sinking Racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter Never seem to find the time Plans that either come to nought Or half a page of scribbled lines Hanging on in quiet desparation is the English way The time is gone The song is over Thought I'd something more to say Home, home again I like to be here when I can When I come home cold and tired It's good to warm my bones beside the fire Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells The fletcher memorial home Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere And build them a home A lttle place of their own The fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings And they can appear tothemselves every day On closed circuit tv To make sure they're still real It's the only connection they feel "Ladies and Gentelmen, please welcome Reagan and haig, mr. begin and friends Mrs. Thatcher and Paisley, Mr. Brezhnev and party The gost of McCarthy The memories of Nixon And now adding colour a group of anonymous Latin American Meat packing glitterati" Did they expect us to treat them with any respect They can polish their medals and sharpen their smiles And amuse themselves playing games for a while Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead Safe in the permanent gaze of a gold glass eye Their favourite toy They'll be good girls and boys In the fletcher memorial home for colonial wasters of life and limb Is everyone in? Are you having a nice time? Now the final solution can be applied Comfortably numb Hello, Is there anybody in there Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone at home Come on now I hear you're feeling down I can ease your pain And get you on your feet again Relax I'll need some information first Just the basic facts Can you show me where it hurts There is no pain, you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying When I was a child I had a fever My hands felt just like two balloons Now I've got that feeling once again I can't explain, you would not understand This is not how I am I have become comfortably numb O.K. Just a little pin prick There'll be no more aaaaaaaah! But you may feel a little sick Can you stand up? I do belive it's working, good That'll keep you going through the show Come on it's time to go. There is no pain you are receding A distant ship smoke on the horizon You are only coming through in waves Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse Out of the corner of my eye I turned to look but it was gone I cannot put my finger on it now The child is grown The dream is gone And I have become Comfortably numb. When The Tigers Broke Free It was just before dawn one miserable morning In black 'forty four When the forward commander Was told to sit tight When he asked that his men be withdrawn And the Generals gave thanks As the other ranks held back The enemy tanks for a while And the Anzio bridge head Was held for the price Of a few hundred ordinary lives And old King George sent Mother A note when he heard that father was gone It was, I recall, in the form of A scroll, with gold leaf and all And I found it one day In a drawer of old photographs hidden away And my eyes still grow damp to remember His Majesty signed With his own rubber stamp It was dark all round, there was frost on the ground When the tigers broke free And no one survived From the Royal Fusiliers, company "C" There were all left behind Most of them dead, the rest of them dying And that's how the high command Took my Daddy from me. One of thes days One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces Us and them Us and them and after all we're only ordinary men me and you God only knows it's not what we would choose to do forward he cried from the rear and the front rank died and the General sat, and the lines on the map moved from side to side Black and blue and who knows which is which and who is who up and down and in the end it's only round and round and round haven't you heard it's a battle of words the poster bearer cried listen, son, said the man with the gun there's room for you inside Down and out it can't be helped but there's a lot of it about with, without and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about out of the way, it's a busy day I've got things on my mind for want of the price of tea and a slice the old man died Learning to fly Into the distance, a ribbon of black stretched to the point of no turning back a flight of fancy on a wind swept field standing alone my sense reeled a fatal attraction holding me fast, how can I escape this irresistable grasp? can't keep my eyes from the circling sky tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I ice is forming on the tips of my wings unheeded warnings, I tought I thought of everything no navigator to guide my way home unladened, empty and turned to stone a soul in tension that's learning to fly condition grounded but determined to try can't keep my eyes from the -circling- skies tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I above the planet on a wing and a prayer my grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air across the clouds I see my shadow fly out of the corner of my watering eye a dream unthreatened by the morning light gould blow this soul right through the roof of the night there's no sensation to compare with this suspended animation, a state of bliss can't keep my mind from the circling sky tongue-tied & twisted just an earth-bound misfit, I Arnold Layne Arnold Layne had a strange hobby collecting clothes, moonshine washing lines they suit him fine On the wall hung a tall mirror distorted view, see through, baby blue he got it Oh Arnold Layne, it's not the same it takes two to know, two to know, two to know, two to know why can't you see Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne Now he's caught a nasty sort of person they gave him time, doors bang chaingang he hated Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne Arnold Layne Arnold Layne don't do it again Wish you were here So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? And did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year, running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears, wish you were here. Jugband blues It's awfully considerate of you to think of me there and I'm most obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not there and I never knew the room could be so big and I never knew the room could be so blue and I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes and brought me here instead dressed in red And I'm wandering who could be writing this song I don't care if the sun don't shine I don't care if nothing is mine and I don't care I'm nervous with you I'll do my loving in the winter And the sea isn't green and I love the queen and what exactly is a dream and what exactly is a joke High Hopes beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young In a world of magnets and miracles our troughts strayed constandly and without boundary The ringing of the division bell had begin Along the long road and on down the causeway Do they still meet there by the cut There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps Running before time took our dreams away Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground To a life consumed by slow decay The grass was greener The light was brighter With friends surrounded The night of wonder Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again Dragged by the force of some inner tide At a higher altitude with flag unfuried We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world Eneumbered forever by desire and ambition There's a hunger still unsatisfied Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon Though down this road we've been so many time The grass was greener The light was brighter The taste was sweeter The nights of wonder With friends surrounded The dawn mist glowing The water flowing The endless river Forever and ever Bike I've got a bike, you can ride if you like it's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it You're the kind of girl that fits in with my world I'll give you anything, everything if you want thing I've got a cloak, it's a bit of a joke there's a tear up the front, it's red and black I've had it for months if you think it gould look good then I guess it should I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house I don't know why I call him Gerald He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse I've got a clan of gingerbread men here a man, there a man, lots of gingerbread men take a couple if you wish, they're on the dish I know a room of musical tune some wine, some gin, most of them are clockwork let's go into the other room and make them work